22Slides

We’ve just released a few very important UI updates to our control panels, which streamline the design, make functionality easier to find (namely deleting a page), and lay the groundwork for bigger changes down the road.

We’ve increased the size of images in “text” posts on Tumblr blogs, which means larger and better-looking imagery, especially on retina or high-resolution screens.

Longer image galleries will automatically display a “back to top” button to allow users to quickly get back to the top of the page and continue navigating your site.

We’ve drastically improved our Dropbox-powered file manager and photo review tool. It’s now much easier for viewers to browse through images and download entire sets. It also automatically inherits the look and feel of your main website.

We increased the amount of time we keep closed accounts’ data safe before being permanently erased, from 3 months to 6 months.

We’ve updated our text editor to provide cleaner and easier-to-manage formatting, which should make it easier to get things looking exactly how you like. We’ve also updated our custom code editor to support the latest browser versions on desktop and mobile devices.

We just released a new streamlined ‘help’ section that features a few things we hope make finding answers to your questions a bit easier:

• Instant topic searching: Now articles are instantly sorted as you type, making it much easier to try different terms while looking for answers.
• Simplified design: Important things are now front and center, with less noise left to get in the way. Our public Q&A section has also been removed because we found that as our platform evolves, old solutions posted in this section often were no longer valid and lead customers down the wrong path.
• Better mobile support: Now looking up a quick reference via your phone is much easier, as the site now matches the rest of our ecosystem in being as responsive as possible.

22Slides has always automatically stripped image metadata (while keeping ICC profiles) to keep file size down and protect your post-processing secrets from prying eyes. But, we’ve just added a new feature to your “Settings > Image Settings” page that allows you to keep this metadata, if you like.

We take our customers’ privacy seriously and pride ourselves in being as non-intrusive as possible with our information gathering, only collecting what’s absolutely necessary to provide the services we do. We skip a lot of the analytics businesses typically perform in order to offer our customers more privacy.

We just published a new privacy policy at https://22slides.com/privacy that outlines exactly what information we collect and how it’s used.

A recent round of updates just launched and among them is the ability to control much more of the look and feel of our horizontal-scrolling image galleries.

It’s now possible to set consistent image sizes, top/bottom margins, and align images to the top, middle, or bottom of the pages, giving you the ability to further customize your website without the need for custom CSS or JavaScript code.